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A Remonstrance and protestation of all the good Protestants of this kingdom, against deposing their lawful soveraign K. James II.
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Reid, J.
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1689
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Wing R969; ESTC R234149
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â—â—llow upon such a Revolution viz. Reproach Violence Taxes Blood and â—â—verty First We shall become the Reproach and Scorn of all Nations It canâ—ot be otherwise when Subjects attempt to Judge and Deprive their Soâ—eraign which is a great Contradiction as well as Danger in Government But to do it without being so much as once heard or summoned is an â—â—jury not to be acted towards the meanest of his Subjects King Charles â—â—e I. had fairer Quarter from Cromwel and Bradshaw They did not on 〈◊〉 charge Him but offered matter in Evidence to maintain the Charge â—ut this King must be Guilty of what his Accusers refuse to prove if â—et able to do it and be Dethroned for Deserting the Kingdom though â—e could not held it Nor do these Gentlemen stop here they will change â—e Crown as well as the King they will not be contented to lay him by â—â—ut choose who shall follow and by that make the Crown Elective â—hich for above 600. years has been successive A thing they ly under â—o necessity to do but is the pure effect of their adventerous and flatterâ—ng Humour Can this do less then render us Odious to the whole world â—hen the King they lay aside never attempted so great an Alteration in any â—ranch of the constitution 2ly We are inevitably in a state of Force for what is gotten by Force must by Force be maintained and let us flatter our selves what we wâ—â— it is not a Vot of parliament but the nature of the thing that will pâ—â—vail They that make the change must and will use Force for their oâ—â— security whatever becomes of Oâ—rs 3dly The charge of the Revolution will be intollerable in a whilâ—â— We shall lay down a computation of one Years Expence for an Instanâ—â— To 70 Sail of Great and Small Ships of War in the Channel and 14 Fire Ships and Tenders for one year 1400000 l. To 8 Sail in the Straits and 5 in America for the same time 0130000. l. To Transporting and Maintaining 15000 Men to be employed in Ireland for one year with Artillarly c. 500000. l. To the Charge of sending and keeping an Army in the Low Countries of 15000 Men for a year 0500000 â— For an Army of 15000 Men in England yearly 0300000 â— The Total 2830000. â— To this must be added the Expence of Civil Gevernment at Home Embaâ—â— Intelligence Secret Services abroad Domestick or Family Expences Charâ—â— upon the Revenue for Debs owing or by Pensions to Persons Aged â—â—cessitous or Meritorious which will mount it to above Three Million and that is more than one Third of the yearly value of the whole Kingdom this must be added the Abatement that will necessarily follow both in Customs and Excise by reason of War and decay of Trade which in Customs alone cannot be less than one Third and that comes to least 400000 l. a year Here is Poverty like an Armed Man All Rents must fall at least half No Employments can be had in proportion to the Poor Tâ—â— means of Charity as well as Hearts to give will be wanting the Oâ—jects of it must extreamly increase and that so very suddenly thaâ— will not be in our power to hinder it if we have not that Peace whiâ—â— nothing else can give us but the Restoration of our right Master 4ly And for Blood can we hope to escape it in War First by Sea is not to be avoided by Land we shall invade the Territories or Coâ—quests of France if he in our Kings Quarrel does not invade us first Sâ—condly their is blood with a vengeance tho' we are not beaten but we are beaten there is Blood with Rebellion upon us which will 〈◊〉 end without Blood in peace and almost an infinite forfeiture of Estates Thirâ—ly We are not assured we shall be long quiet within our selves maâ— strong Factions already appearing and we are less assured that Scotland 〈◊〉 not be in Arms and find something to do in this Conjuncture that 〈◊〉 a King to loose and to chuse as well as we Fore Ireland we are assured or â—â—â—ht to be they who possess the Government will lose it at as dear a rate â—hey can Their All is at stake and they are not without hopes by French Kings assistance to recover all for their own and will value â—â—mselves to him and the World by revenging our Despysing and Inâ—â—ce both to him and them Nor can we think they will endure this inâ—â—â—ity to the first King of their Religion since the Reformation or suffer â—â—se to be ill used here that have faithfully served their King without â—â—tting the same measure to some disloyal persons there Otherwise â—ittle wit as we allow the Irish to have they have enough to know â—â—t a Mossacre which we so much talk of would be their own ruine â—â—â—l that if they carry it fair to the English they will in a while gain â—â—se there to joyn them and more than there too for the Restoration â—heir and our Lawful King. But be it as it will whether we regard â—â—selves Scotland Ireland or Holland War and Blood look us in the â—â—e and Poverty and Misery must follow These are like to be the Consequence of this Celebrated Change. Now whether our Dangers were so great or our Fears so just as to reâ—â—â—te all this alteration for our Security days of Affliction can only inâ—â—â—n us if we will still be deaf to those just and peaceable Expedients 〈◊〉 have been often proposed to us We shall close our Remonstrance 〈◊〉 this caution to the present busie Men that since They cannot holy lay Their King aside without entring into the Merits of the Cause â—â—ch it is plain They wave and in as much as They cannot justly say â—as laid Himself aside by Deserting Them when his Desertion is coâ—â—e and against His will Let Them Repent of what They have done let us all joyn for the prevention of Civil as well as Foreign bloody Wars â—â—tch Him Home to the Kingdoms of His Fathers with greater Glory 〈◊〉 He came first to Them and it shall not lessen It that it be done with â—â—ter Security to our just Freedoms FINIS
A REMONSTRANCE and PROTESTATION Of all the GOOD PROTESTANTS Of this Kingdom against Deposing their Lawful Soveraign K. JAMES II. Printed by a Lover of the KING MDCLXXXIX A REMONSTRANCE and PROTESTATION Of all the GOOD PROTESTANTS Of this Kingdom against Deposing their Lawful Soveraign K. JAMES II. SInce it is evident to the whole World that the present State of this Kingdom is a state of Force and that after all the pretence of Property there is no Law in England but the Long Sword that upon that Foundation Our present Architects are raising the Fabrick of their New Government We who profess our selves to be True Protestants and Tenderer of the Honour of our Religion then of our Lives to think our selves obliged in Conscience to vindicate our Reputation to Mankind by declaring our Disatisfaction to the present proceedings and making a publick Protestation against the Authors of them It is true The Fears and Jealousies we have had of the coming in of Popery by the Influence of some great Men of that Religion had upon His Majesty improved by the daily Reflections that were made and the Ill Turn that was given to every Act of State by some Malignant Spirits among our selves made us we confess very Cold and Indifferent in His Majesties Defence against a Prince of the Blood of our Own Religion whose Errand as we were told Was to preserve our Religion and Laws and the Just Succession of the Royal Line This only could have made us endure an Action we should else have hated presuming our Kings less should have been His Gain and our Yielding our Victory But since we behold to our unspeakable Grief that our Condissention is Treacherously abused to private Ends and that shew of our Disloyalty not made a Remedy to the Government but a Ruin to our King and an Infamy to our selves to serve the turn of some Mens Avarice and Ambition We think fit to Protest against such Injustice and to declare We neither know nor will acknowledge any other King then JAMES the Second who is our Lawful Soveraign while He lives and this Resolution we will maintain upon all Occasions as becomes Loyal Subjects and good Protestants to do Not ought this to appear a blind or unreasonable Sacrifice on our part since we can find neither Truth nor Justice in the Reason given for laying His Majesty aside For the Kings Discretion so much spoken of was a plain Necessity and not a Crime Had those Forraigners that Conquer'd but by leavâ— suffered Him to stay a King at Home He had never gone Abroad buâ— if it were a Crime it was against Himself and not against the Kingdomâ— His sins against the Nation we have daily expected to hear of Those black practices that brought the Prince of Orange hither to save us and do hiâ— Princes Right It is plain His Discretion which is now made the fault tâ—â— Dethrone Him could be none of them for that was not foreseen bâ—â— the Prince or those that called him in And we Challenge those thaâ— have Impeached Him to prove to us as clearly as they made us believâ— they could that the Birth of the Prince of Wales is an Imposture that the Kinâ— has made a League with France to cut off the Protestants of these Kingdoms anâ— that his Brother and the Earl of Essex were murdered by his appointment Had these vile things been proved upon Him we had done with him forever and till then common Honesty would fly in our Faces if we should Desert Him And though his Enemies have been able to deceive us wâ— hope they shall not be able to Destroy us If our Good Nature had suffered us to be easily abus'd our Integrity will oblidge us as quickly anâ— throughly to resent it And therefore since we cannot have their proofs We must and will have our King again for all this We know the excuse that is made for this profound silence that the forbear to prove this black charge out of pure tendeness to the King but wâ— are not to learn at this time of the day the great Tenderness of my Lorâ— Shro Mord. Lov. Mr. Harb Burn. and Ferg towards his Majesty no morâ— then the gratitude of my Lords Moug Chur. Bark and the Bishop of Durh. oâ— the Mercy of Kirk or the Valour of Lene or the Morals of all of them But those Gentlemen and Partners are too tender to prove theiâ— charge why did they make it and if they cannot do it why do the proceed and refuse to open his Letters sent for an Accommodation They have accused his Majesty of Imposture they must prove it or makâ— themselves the worst of Impostors which is an ill bottom for a Reformation to stand upon It is impossible for Men of comon sense to imagine thaâ— three Kingdoms can be taken away from any Man out of tenderness to him especially if the reason of it be that they show no cause why they do it It is a Mystery to us how they can be so very tender of his credit at the same time and in the same occasion so mighty careless of their Own. This has so ill a Face with us that the whole seems the plot of a few Men to serve themselves of the Kings popery and the Prince of Orange's Protestancy to bring Honours and profits of the Government into their own Hands which is not preserving our property but making a property of Us. It is this that compels us to say and declare to the whole World we look upon our selves to be cheated and our King to be Belyed and Betrayed â—â—t of all his Kingdoms Nor can the Prince be blameless if he yields to what â—â—ey would give him for their own sakes since that were only to do his â—â—eir business and not the Kingdoms It is not enough to say it is put â—â—on him for none can believe a few Naked Conventioners could force him at â—â—e head of his army to take Three Crowns from his Father Brother Sister â—â—d Wife against his own Will and Declaration And that he should 〈◊〉 it out of pure Self-denyal is as incomprehensible as that he could do justly after what he has said to the Staâ—es and to us to the contrary If â—â—erefore he came for less then 3 Crowns less then 3 Crowns should saâ—â—sfie him if nothing less will content him our preservation was not the â—â—â—al Motive of his coming and then the hazards he run upon this score â—â—nnot be justly placed to the account of Merit The King of France â—imself for ought we know would have turned Protestant for the Barâ—â—an which had been at least as great a Miracle as any we have yet seen 〈◊〉 this Affair And though what we have said were sufficient to deter 〈◊〉 good Protestants from taking any part in the Work now in hand yet â—e cannot forbear expressing our Zeal against those Evil practices by letâ—â—ng our Countrey men know the great Mischief that must inevitably